John Addington Symonds

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

Here she forgoes a chronological structure in favour of ordering her eclectic subjects (such as ancient sculpture, medieval love poems, Elizabethan plays set during the Renaissance) in an eclectic manner. In this way she imitates...

Among the earliest of Sappho 's translators into English was Anne Finch ; among recent translators is Mary Barnard , 1958. Stevie Smith declined to take her on. Finch chose to render not a love-poem...

One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL 's work was John Addington Symonds , a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other...

In 1895 EH contributed a preface to a new edition of Roden Noel 's Livingstone in Africa (a poem originally published in 1874). In 1901 she collaborated with John Addington Symonds in a privately printed...

The Bristol Times and Mirror carried EM 's obituary of the writer John Addington Symonds , whose father had been her intellectual mentor when she moved to Clifton as a girl.

Along with Mrs Max Müller , Charlotte Byron Green (wife of Thomas Hill Green and sister of John Addington Symonds ), and Louise Creighton , MAW became a secretary of the Lectures for Women Committee

In contrast to this, J. A. Symonds in the Academy (where ABE was well known and respected as a contributor) gave her credit as a serious Egyptologist. This, he said, was no mere book of...

Lee's work had a highly mixed reception. It was praised by Pater: in a footnote added to the third edition of his Renaissance, he calls Euphoriona work abounding in knowledge and insights on...

John Addington Symonds replied to the dedication by calling EMone of the brightest ornaments of literature applied to pure and healthful purpose for the youth of England.A missionary reader in Calcutta wrote...

In Kettering SJ found respite from a place she disliked in walking and in a subscription to the Times Book Club , which brought to her attention J. A. Symonds 's Renaissance in Italy and...

They were greatly influenced in their writing of this book by Henry Thornton Wharton 's recent Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation. Containing John Addington Symonds ' translation of Sappho 's...

MC shared a particularly close friendship with William Sharp (who wrote as Fiona MacLeod ) and his wife Elizabeth (who wrote his biography). The Sharps, who lived a two minutes' walk away from MC in...

Virginia's tutor Janet Case became her lifelong friend. In her late teens she had an array of female friends of ten to twenty years older than herself: Violet Dickinson , philanthropic Quaker, Kitty Maxse

The historian John Addington Symonds was GP 's second cousin, but she did not have a high opinion of his work.